I write about AI and Geopolitics
The Iron Curtain, the Digital Slave, and the Fate of Humanity I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where we are heading with artificial intelligence. It feels like we are standing at a precipice, and the ground is shifting under our feet. If the twentieth century was defined by who controlled uranium and plutonium, the … Read more
The Promise We Haven’t Kept World Refugee Day comes around every year on June 20. We treat it as a time to honor the courage and endurance of people forced from their homes by war, persecution, and collapse. But if we are honest with ourselves, it is also a day of indictment. The global theme … Read more
Why “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right” in the Race to Control the Future of Intellect I woke up this morning from a bizarre dream in which I received instructions to investigate whether Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was connected to President Warren G. Harding. I know little about King and … Read more
This open letter addresses leading AI developers and industry figures, emphasizing their unprecedented responsibility to form a unified, independent coalition to govern advanced AI technologies responsibly, establish shared development limits, and prevent reckless competition and misuse, as traditional regulatory and governmental mechanisms are too slow to manage the rapid evolution of AI systems that profoundly … Read more